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Judith C. Tingley Ph.D. is a psychologist and author, living in the state of Washington after 40 years in Phoenix Arizona. A graduate of the Universities of Michigan, Washington and Arizona State, she’s currently working on a new book, Handbook #1 for Intelligent Women: Break the Negative Self-Talk Habit.

She’s the author of four previous books: Genderflex—Men and Women Speaking Each Others Language at Work; Say What You Mean Get What You Want: A Business Person’s Guide to Direct Communication; GenderSell—How to Sell to the Opposite Sex and The Power of Indirect Influence.

In a career that includes 30 years as a therapist, plus experience as a professional speaker and trainer, an executive coach, and a college professor, Judy has interacted in many different ways with thousands of diverse people. She has always been particularly interested in gender similarities and differences, communication and thinking patterns of people in our always-changing culture.

Judy’s other major interest is the GREEN movement. Since Seattle is ranked as #8 in Popular Science’s ranking of the 50 greenest cities, she’s delighted to be in the right place at the right time. She’s presently in a leadership position working to decrease the carbon footprint of the church she attends, annoying lots of people who don’t believe there’s global warming.

Judy has always been a person with strong opinions, clearly differentiating beliefs and thoughts, from facts and research findings: a skeptical psychologist in certain ways. She enjoys intelligent discussions on controversial topics of all kinds. Although her friends accuse her, in a friendly manner of course, of always wanting to be right, she admits the strong desire, while insisting that she’s always working to decrease the strong tendency.

WELCOME TO IWO!

It's the beginning of the third year of intelligentwomenonly.com I've started off with some retrospective posts as a reminder to me and you that this blog started out focused on understanding and eliminating negative self-talk. Not surprising since my current book project is Handbook #l for Intelligent Women: Break the Negative Self-Talk Habit.Strong beliefs underlie intelligentwomenonly.com posts:• Research based advice/suggestions/content contain more accurate facts and greater value than pop psychology.• Intelligent girls and women are more likely than intelligent boys and men to limit themselves because of their self-talk.• Negative self-talk is a bad habit, not a neurosis or psychosis. Unfortunately, it's normal in a majority of girls and women.

•The negative self-talk habit has to be eliminated before realistic (or positive thinking) can be learned and maintained.• Positive self-talk cannot create a positive reality even if the negative self-talk habit is broken.• Self-help approaches can work for changing thinking, feeling, and behavioral habits.In the next nine months of 2012, I would love to be able to tell you that the book will be published this year or next. In the meantime I've become intrigued with new brain research about thinking and emotions, particularly applicable and useful for and to women. I'll post no more about gender differences, unless they're wildly interesting, and more about intelligent women's psychology, thinking, feelings, and out front actions. I've added a new red subject box, Writers and Writing, targeted specifically for writers, of course!

I'm still looking for some controversy, disagreement, new information from readers. I'm open to your thoughts about what you'd like to hear more about — or less about!Please send me your comments, suggestions, questions, criticisms — all of you intelligent women out there!